Daily Archives: 06/08/2013

(Community Matters) Lori Hawkins in the AAS: Capital Factory: Center of Austin’s startup scene

(Community Matters) The birds, squirrels and I expectantly await the ripening of our apples. The birds are winning the figs.

(Community Matters) As my daddy reminds me, there’s always another side to every story, and I haven’t heard from EACPA or SWKey directly. So, I post the comments I receive acknowledging we’re hearing just one side. If SWKey or EACPA would like to comment, I’m happy to hear. Over the years, I have spoken to a dear friend who was a board member who wasn’t so happy that I was making comments – and who I note didn’t stay on the board too long after I suggested he research the matter rather than chew me out for asking, – a former development consultant (almost ditto), and this week reached out directly to another insider.

I received the following note yesterday:

06/07/2013 at 12:07 PM

Hello,
I am a former high level administrator at EACPA. I have reviewed the school’s charter many times. The charter does specifically state that no outside entity (i.e. Southwest Key) may have anything to do with the management of the school. In fact, the charter states that the school may not have a management company at all. All school matters must be run by school employees. Having seen the bills many times, I can tell you that Southwest Key charges the school management fees. I can also tell you that the school board members, not the school administrators, are ultimately responsible for this violation of the school charter. It is also true that Southwest Key manages grants awarded to the school and acts like they are their own. It is true that Dr. Sanchez’s wife, who does not work for the school, runs the school grants. Finally, I know from current and former school employees that Dr. Sanchez is no longer even on the school board but he is still making hiring, firing, and financial decisions for the school. School officials are sharing confidential information with Southwest Key and the school board is complicit in allowing Southwest Key to profit from state education dollars by overcharging the school and profiting from the school’s lease agreements.
Hope this helps

| 06/07/2013 at 2:20 PM

(Community Matters) The Economist on immunotherapy in fight against melanoma.

Earlier post

(Community Matters) “My sources confirm that the NSA did not have direct access or any special instant access to data or servers at the PRISM targets, but instead had to send requests to the companies for the data.”

Tech Crunch’s Josh Constine on how tech companies might be curtailing, rather than enabling, unlimited government access to internet data by requiring tight scope and extracting and forwarding only specific targets’ data http://techcrunch.com/2013/06/08/cooperation-methods-protected-innocents-from-prism/

Earlier yesterday, Tech Crunch founder Michael Arrington pointed out in his blog, Uncrunched, that tech company denials were finely worded, in some cases exactly worded. http://bit.ly/18d0klD